In The News: College of Liberal Arts
It’s risky business, messing with the memory of Abraham Lincoln. For some, our 16th president is a secular saint, revered for ending slavery and guiding the nation through the Civil War and becoming not just a paragon of virtue to generations of American schoolchildren but co-honoree of a national holiday that arrives in just a few weeks.
As the nation faces ongoing threats of white supremacist violence and voter suppression legislation, more than 200 scholars of U.S. history have signed an open letter urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era in upper elementary, middle, and high school U.S. history and civics courses.
As a 22-year-old, amateur boxer, Bradley Donohue always burned out before the third round. As his muscles tightened, his mind would go into overdrive as he tried to plan his next move and guess his opponent's. Between rounds one day, a watching sports psychologist told him, essentially, he needed to chill: "The ring is your playground. Your playground. It's simple, hit. Hit and don't be hit."
When Shanta Patton discusses the gap between Black and white homeownership rates, she starts with the game of Monopoly.
When Shanta Patton discusses the gap between Black and white homeownership rates, she starts with the game of Monopoly.
The erasure of Black leaders from the most misunderstood period in American history
It wasn't the first hotel to be built in Las Vegas as some claim, but the Golden Gate is a hotel full of firsts.
It wasn’t the first hotel built in Las Vegas, as some have claimed, but the Golden Gate is a hotel full of firsts.
Harry Reid died Dec. 28 at age 82, leaving behind a legacy of securing millions of acres of protected wilderness, creating Nevada’s first and only national park and keeping nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain.
Nevada's most powerful politician ever on the national stage, Harry Reid was a quiet but fierce advocate for the state's tourism industry.
13 Action News anchor Todd Quinones looks back at how Senator Reid changed Nevada forever.
